Glenda Jackson nearly lost her seat tonight

She managed to squeak out a win by about 50 votes over the Conservative:

by Anonymous

reply 44

02/26/2013

same thing the bitch did with my Oscar for The Way We Were

by Anonymous

reply 1

05/07/2010

She did very, very well to hang onto the seat at all given the swing from Labour to Conservative in London, and she had a very small majority to start with, less than 500.

She's a very good local MP, and she is a very good backbencher: anti-war, and a thorn in the side of the front bench.

by Anonymous

reply 2

05/07/2010

42 vote difference

by Anonymous

reply 3

05/07/2010

If it would mean her return to acting, I'd be consoled.

by Anonymous

reply 4

05/07/2010

Do you miss her, R4?

by Anonymous

reply 5

05/07/2010

If she lost, they could do a reboot of "To The Manor Born" with Glenda playing a bitchy version of Penny Keith's role. Of course they would have to advance the characters' ages by a few decades.

by Anonymous

reply 6

05/07/2010

Somewhat interestingly, she doesn't live in the district she represents.

by Anonymous

reply 7

05/07/2010

MPs don't have to live in their districts? That does seem odd.

by Anonymous

reply 8

05/07/2010

Tamsin Omond To The Commons?

by Anonymous

reply 9

05/07/2010

"MPs don't have to live in their districts? That does seem odd."

They don't. Glenda's Conservative opponent tried to make an issue of it. She lives in London, but not in her district.

by Anonymous

reply 10

05/07/2010

She's still no Meryl Streep!

by Anonymous

reply 11

05/07/2010

Glenda's HEDDA on the tube! Try not to shoot all over the place!!

by Anonymous

reply 12

02/09/2011

I don't have anything against her, but it's bullshit that an MP doesn't have to live in the district they represent. How detached can one be?

by Anonymous

reply 13

02/09/2011

Judi Dench lives there, if that helps.

by Anonymous

reply 14

02/10/2011

The UK is going massively conservative.

by Anonymous

reply 15

02/10/2011

Dodged a bullet there.

by Anonymous

reply 16

02/10/2011

[quote]it's bullshit that an MP doesn't have to live in the district they represent. How detached can one be?

Your congressperson's winning campaign was most likely bought and paid for to the largest extent by corporate donors and influential lobbies who don't live in your district or care about its interests.

by Anonymous

reply 17

02/10/2011

R15, haven't the Conservatives gone down in the polls since their win last year?

by Anonymous

reply 18

02/10/2011

I love R17's brutal analysis.

by Anonymous

reply 19

02/10/2011

r16, Glenda would have triumphed in your role.

by Anonymous

reply 20

02/10/2011

"Judi Dench lives there, if that helps."

Did Dench vote for her?

by Anonymous

reply 21

02/10/2011

Unless Dench was angling for a staging of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE in her own home, she'd better have voted for her.

by Anonymous

reply 22

02/11/2011

Love Glenda Jackson in 'A Touch of Class'--but even 40 years later--not at the expense of Barbra Streisand being denied the Best Actress Oscar for 'The Way We Were.' Streisand was robbed.

by Anonymous

reply 23

02/11/2011

Well - I am embarrassed. I thought this thread was about something completely different.

by Anonymous

reply 24

02/11/2011

"I'm sorry. We've sold the last seat on that flight."%0D %0D "That flight is never full."%0D %0D "I'm sorry, sir. We had a group of nuns visiting the island. If you had only called us to make a reservation."%0D %0D Glenda Jackson's greatest line reading over:%0D %0D "Press THAT in your book of memories."

by Anonymous

reply 25

02/11/2011

Glenda's not even in the top 10! Those stupid fuckers!

by Anonymous

reply 26

02/13/2011

And to add on to r17, U.S. Congresspeople don't have to live in their districts either according to the Constitution. All they have to do is live in the right state.

by Anonymous

reply 27

02/13/2011

A friend of mine on E. 54 St in NYC rented her apartment to Jackson and her bf at the time in the late 1960's. When she got back there was EXCREMENT on the walls.

by Anonymous

reply 28

02/13/2011

Glenda in Robert Altman's underrated classic HealtH:

by Anonymous

reply 29

02/13/2011

Glenda in STEVIE, as poet Stevie Smith:

by Anonymous

reply 30

02/13/2011

Glenda as Sarah Bernhardt in THE INCREDIBLE SARAH!

That's all, my dears!

by Anonymous

reply 31

02/13/2011

Is Dench a Labour supporter, R22?

by Anonymous

reply 32

02/13/2011

I think the real question is why Jackson doesn't live in her district. I think most people would jump at the chance to live in Hampstead if they could.

by Anonymous

reply 33

02/13/2011

How can Audrey Hepburn be considered on of the top ten Brit actresses? She was Belgian.

by Anonymous

reply 34

02/13/2011

It's ridiculous!

by Anonymous

reply 35

02/22/2011

Glenda doing an intro for The Devils, on Bravo, when Bravo was a channel about culture, apparently:

by Anonymous

reply 36

02/22/2011

My God, THANK YOU r36? Don't you just adore her pronunciation of "sexual"? Her description of the movie sounded like she was talking about Datalounge.

by Anonymous

reply 37

02/22/2011

I do, R37!%0D %0D In fact, I rewound just to hear it again. Best voice ever.

by Anonymous

reply 38

02/22/2011

Viva Glenda!

by Anonymous

reply 39

02/23/2011

Signed picture with autographs from both Glenda & Judi in fierce pose together - total collector's item!

by Anonymous

reply 40

04/29/2012

R40 I wouldn't call that a fierce pose, it's a very dramatic, but loving and gentle pose . I've always said, and it's probably true, that Judi Demch owes Glenda Jackson her movie career. If Glenda had not gone into politics, I'm sure she would have had her third go as Elizabeth I I. S in Love, she would have been M in all those James Bond pictures. I'm not putting Dame Judi down, it's just that holly weird is shallow and Glenda was the first and be Led first.

by Anonymous

reply 41

11/28/2012

Be led= beloved

by Anonymous

reply 42

11/28/2012

"Glenda doing an intro for The Devils, on Bravo, when Bravo was a channel about culture, apparently."

Yes, that was a long time ago - this intro must be from the 80's or early 90's. I have to wonder if Bravo made cuts in the film for broadcast since there are some very grotesque and gory images in it (it got an "X" rating when first released in 1970).

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